Improvement in plaiting-machines



' UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

SAMUEL J. ANDERSON AND HUGH B. RORKE, OF CAZENOVIA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLAlTlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 173,877, dated February 22, 1876 application filed January 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

. provements in Plaiting-Machine; and we do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

Our in vention relates to an improvement in planing-machines and it consists. in the arran gement and combinatiouof parts that will be more fully described'hereinafter, whereby cloth of different kinds for trimmings to ladies dresses can be plaited into knife, single box. and double-box plaiting.

The accompanying drawings represent our invention.

(it represents a flat board of any suitable size, having a flange, 0, formed around three of its edges, in order to hold the frame at in position. e, that are connected together by a number of strips, g, of sheet metal, or any other suitable material, that are placed a slight distance apart. It represents a flat board, which is just large enough to cover over the top of the frame d after the cloth has been forced down between the strips 9 by means of the knife '5. This knife consists of a suitable frame and a slotted blade, j, which can be adjusted up and down to suit the different depths'of plaiting. There should be two of these knives to each board.

The operation is as follows: Place the frame or rack d uponthe board a, lay the material to be plaited upon the strips 9, and take one of the knives and press the material down This frame consists of two side pieces,

through the spaces between the strips, using first one knife and then the other until all the spaces are filled. Then place the board It on top of the-cloth and strips, and then turn over the rack d and apply a damp cloth or sponge to the plaits. Then use a hot iron to press the plates down, after which the cloth is removed from the rack. knife-plaitin g.

Box-plaiting is made by putting the cloth in alternate spaces, and then, the rack being turned over, as in the first process, the cloth dampened, and then one plait ironed to the right and one to the left.

Double-box plaiting is made by placing the cloth between the two first spaces; then skip three spaces, and then place the cloth in the next two. These plaits are then turned to the right and left.

Different widths of plaiting can be made by using two spaces, or three, between each plait, and by using broader knives;

Having thus described our invention, we claim 1. The rack or frame 61, in combination with the board it and a blade for forcing thecloth through between the stripsig, substantially as shown.

2. The above-described method of forming plaits by forcing the cloth through spaces, and then ironing the plaits down, as specified.

3. In combination with a rack, d, the knife 'i, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 3d day of January, 1876.

SAMUEL J. ANDERSON.

HUGH B. RORKE.

Witnesses:

-EZEKIEL P. Moan,

E. N. WILsoN.

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